Foreign News: Truespeak

Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was not the man he once was in the
Kremlin hierarchy. Watching him last week as he tried to answer the
West's challenge, his opposite numbers concluded that he had been
relegated to the status of an "operator." He had the air of a man
quoting from something. But the bland and deceptive phrases he rolled
out were still an instructive lesson in Russian truespeak, a code
designed to confuse the inattentive. Herewith, a running translation of
Molotovisms:

¶"The principal obstacle to security in Europe is the
existence of military groupings." Meaning: We cannot push European
countries...